The lawsuit lands after the Russian state security service, the FSB (formerly known as the KGB), demanded that the Dubai -
based app maker hand over its encryption keys, which Russia contends is a legal demand.
The Toronto -
based app maker aims to break down a key barrier to fashion e-commerce by allowing shoppers to envision themselves in outfits as they browse
Not exact matches
Drug
maker Takeda and U.K. -
based partner Cognition Kit have shown promising (but preliminary) results in a study of their co-developed depression
app.
New Money: Headspace, a Los Angeles -
based maker of a meditation
app, has raised $ 36.7 million in funding from Spectrum Equity.
• Snap Inc, a Venice, Calif. -
based maker of the popular messaging
app Snapchat, raised $ 3.4 billion by offering 200 million shares.
Whatever the future holds for Research In Motion, this Toronto -
based app design house is benefiting from the BlackBerry
maker's determination to catch up to Apple and Google.
-- Jay Jamison, SVP of strategy and product management at Quick
Base,
maker of a no - code tool that enables workers to build
apps without needing to know how to write a single line of code and that is used by more than half of Fortune 100 companies including Google, Kayak, and Southwest Airlines
According to research firm CB Insights, Chinese smartphone
maker Xiaomi is worth $ 46 billion and
app -
based taxi service Uber is valued at $ 41 billion.
• Docady, an Israel -
based maker of a mobile
app for critical document access and management, has raised $ 1.5 million in seed funding from backers like Pitango Venture Capital, Disrupt - ive and Eilon Tirosh.
In 2011, DiCaprio led a $ 4 million investment round in Mobli, a Tel Aviv -
based photo sharing
app maker.
The company Qwiki,
maker of an iPhone video sharing
app, was hatched at a Summit event and acquired last year by Yahoo for $ 50 million;
Basis, a company that makes wristwatch health trackers, secured its first major investment at Summit and was sold to Intel last year for over $ 100 million.
NY TIMES - Feb 4 - Many
app makers are trying to capitalize on the Tinder method of simple, smartphone -
based dating.
The
makers of «The Angry Birds Movie» can't overcome the fact that their film is
based on an
app, where the lead characters are expendable ammunition.
The China
based smartphone
maker Xiaomi has come up with an ebook store on its MIUI
app store.
In an interview with TechCrunch, SwiftKey co-founder and CTO Ben Medlock indicated that a key reason for the change is the ability to reach a much wider user
base (not to mention being able to make deals with device
makers), but he also noted that the growing trend of freemium
apps was also a trigger (with many studies indicating the best monetization opportunities come from this model).
App makers, lukewarm to the original Web -
based approach, embraced the iPhone SDK and the
App Store model — even if it meant agreeing to Apple's very detailed restrictions and occasionally lengthy review process.
The
makers of Scrivener also offer another
app -
based product called Scapple, a free - thought
app that helps writers make notes about characters and plot points that can be connected with simple solid and dotted lines to help build relationships and story lines.
To be run on Honeycomb
based tablets Popular
makers of Photoshop Adobe has announced a range of touch
apps designed for Android run tablet devices, which are all
based around their Adobe Creative Suite of products.
Since Amazon has yet to start retailing the Fire outside the U.S., there are still openings for tablet
makers to turn things around elsewhere — although with no obvious new offerings to compete with the content portfolio that Amazon (and Apple) have available to users via their
app stores and other cloud -
based media services, for the moment they unfortunately remain sitting ducks.
Santa Monica, California -
based Ouya has agreed to sell its software and
app store, said Razer, a computer and accessories
maker popular with gamers.
It initially emerged with the growth of web -
based mobile games in Japan and its Mobage service, but over the past few years it has transitioned into
apps making acquisitions along the way, including the $ 400 million purchase of Ngmoco, and social games
maker Punch.
Edmodo, a San Mateo -
based startup that provides a social network for teachers and students, has purchased education
app maker Root - 1.
Predictive keyboard
app maker SwiftKey,
based in London, confirmed today it has sold to Microsoft.
And now, the car
maker is exploring how to use blockchain
apps in its vehicles in collaboration with XIAN, a Berlin -
based blockchain startup.
Indeed, the Tokyo -
based electronics
maker / media conglomerate has music embedded in its DNA, and that's certainly noticeable in the stock Music
app included with their Xperia phones.
Microsoft has announced it is making its Cortana voice assistant AI available to third - party device
makers, with third - party developers also set to get access to the platform for integrating into their services on Cortana - powered devices.The company's approach is
based on two software kits currently available for preview: A Skills Kit that allows developers to build
apps that can be called up and controlled via Cortana using voice commands, and a Cortana Devices SDK, which enables third - party hardware manufacturers to bake in the voice - activated AI to new devices.Premium audio company Harman Kardon is set to become one of the first device
makers to make use of the SDK in a new wireless speaker, set to debut early next year.
The new platform, known as Upbit, is a partnership between South Korean
app maker Dunamu and U.S. -
based Bittrex, one of the market's longest - running exchanges focused on alternative cryptocurrencies.
The new platform, known as Upbit, is a partnership between South Korean
app maker Dunamu and U.S. -
based Bittrex, one of the market's longest - running exchanges focused on
Samsung has made no secret of its desire to use the Viv purchase to build an AI -
based open ecosystem across its devices and services with third party
app makers adding capabilities such as making mobile payments with your voice.
Hoping to woo
app makers down the road, Fitbit will let developers write software in a web -
based programming language called JavaScript, which some say makes it easier to create
apps that will run on the watch.
That way, the company wouldn't split its user
base and developer community by pushing
app makers toward optimizing for a device only a small number of consumers might have by year's end.
Apple is highlighting RAC7, the Vancouver -
based developers of the hit game Splitter Critters, as part the «Canada's Best Game
Makers» list on the
App Store.
The presence of an all - new keyboard
app would encourage smartphone
makers to develop more phablets
based on Windows 10 operating system this year.
An easy way to disable BlinkFeed, customizable quick settings, «dual capture» and «Panorama +» in camera
app High - profile HTC ROM
maker mike1986 has produced screenshots purporting to be from the next version of HTC's Android -
based UI, Sense 5.5.
That rumor,
based on a late 2017 report from Bloomberg, would allow iOS
app makers to bring their wares to the Mac in an effort to give the Mac software market a boost.
Daum Kakao —
makers of the popular Kakao Talk messaging
app — has significant experience building a large user
base in the region.
«We said, «You know what, we need to make an
app for the agents,»» says Charles Drouin, the president and CEO of Montreal -
based Prospects Software,
makers of the Prospects Mobile
app for real estate agents.